Johnny Halife’s Blog

These days lot of things are coming around, as I mentioned on the DinnerNow.net posts, lot of technologies were made available. Some of them in beta phase , and some as final releases.

I know, you’ll probably say: “Ok, I’ve downloaded DinnerNow.net, installed it, and I’ve seen those technologies working together but now what?”. Ok, here is what can you do: I’m proud to announce (as James Conard did in his weblog) that Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit (Beta 3) is now public & available.

What I will find if I download the package?

The kit contains presentations used by Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) on their early adoption program for ISV (a.k.a Touchdown). It contains presentations on 15 different topics going from IIS7 to .Net 3.0 including stuff like Virtualization and High Performance Computing. It also includes 7 hands on labs, where Southworks helped the DPE team on the development. Check out Gabriel’s blog to read more about the labs.

What should I do now?

C’mon, the answer is easy… Get the bits now! And don’t forget to check James’ post about it!

Also I want to congratulate to the guys who contribute to this amazing package, like: Jason Olson, David Aiken, Matt Winkler, Nigel Watling, Brett Hill, Volker Will, and Justin Smith.

That’s all folks… and stay tuned.

thanks,
~johnny

DinnerNow.net v1.3 was published and also there's an Orcas version showing the enhancements to WCF+WF , Syndication, Linq, among other Orcas features.

What's new on DinnerNow.net?

• New Service Portfolio. The DinnerNow.net services had been completely re written. This new solution consists on: Service Interfaces, Data Access, Workflow, and Business Logic.
• Unit Testing. The new service portfolio includes the Unit Test for it's components.
• Documentation. Now the Service Portfolio includes ///XML documentation, and we're shipping with a CHM file generated with SandCastle.
• Mobile Application. The delivery application had been completely rewritten using Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional SDK. This application completes the Order Delivery workflow.
• New demo walkthrought. Demo documentation was been updated including the Mobile Application information.
• Improved setup. The C:\DinnerNow is no longer mandatory, now you can install DinnerNow.net sample application wherever you want.

The v1.3 version is based on Microsoft .net Framework 3.0 and it has been tested on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server Beta 3).

DinnerNow.net Orcas version

In addition to v1.3, we're also releasing a version of DinnerNow.net that has been developed using Visual Studio “Orcas” and the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 1. This version takes advantage Orcas features like:

• Linq. Data Access layer has been re written using Language Integrated Query for .net and LINQ-TO-SQL.
• Silver. On the service portfolio we got rid of plumbing code used on v1.3 with the new Workflow Services feature of Orcas.
• Syndication. We implemented the RSS Services using the WCF Syndication capabilities.

The Orcas version of DinnerNow.net has a couple of known issues, so please review the Known Issues document

Besides DinnerNow.net sample application we're releasing five new hands-on-labs for Orcas beta 1. The labs are based on DinnerNow.net sample application, but you do *NOT* need to download and install DinnerNow.net sample application in order to use them.

So, what are you waiting for get the bits now! And visit our codeplex community site in order to get the hands-on-lab.

thanks,
~johnny

The last two weeks Mike and I were presenting at “La Feria del Libro” one of the DinnerNow labs as a workshop for Teachers and IT People that assisted to the event.

About the event

Feria del Libro (Book fair) is the most popular intellectual event in Argentina. It lasts almost 4 weeks and 1.200.000 attendees through the event. The central thing is the book, but a huge other things happen around it, the most important for us is education. We had a stand of 200 m2 there, with a lab with 40 PC with latest technology.

The experience

It was really cool, was my first time in an event like this with different types of attendees on the same track. It's a massive event, and people were really interested in it. We held the conference with more than 120 attendees for both tracks. I wish we had more PC so more people could get involved but space was limited by our 200m2 of stand.

The material

For the attendees, the material will be posted on Mike's blog soon. The main difference between the material that you'll get from us and the official one at www.dinnernow.net is the language. Our presentation was in spanish and we've translated the material but if you feel comfortable with english don't wait get the material from here, otherwise visit Mike's blog for more info.

Memories from the fair

A video

The following video is an extract of the Demo we've made about LINQ. The video: http://www.youtube.com/v/X9mHbRNma2E

thanks,
~johnny

Today we’ve released an updated version of DinnerNow, it’s the v1.2. Most of the fixes and improvements that we’re delivering in this oportunity are related to setup and configuration.

Also we’re delivering a couple of new features:

Live Service Tracer Viewer. We’ve taken the version of the Live Service Trace Viewer (WPF & WCF) that was developed by Vittorio Bertucci and Craig McMurtry and make it .NET 3.0 RTM compliant. Also we’ve embedded that functionality into MMC console.

Out-Workflow. David has developed a formatter for PowerShell that is used in our CmdLet to display the workflow status in a graphical version of it. It does a preview of the workflow status using a Control that’ve done like the workflow designer.

CardSpace. We added the support for Custom Claims for the Card Space Sample in out application. Also you can reuse those claims in the check out process to choose the delivery address.

For those who still not beign familiar with DinnerNow.net this is a short description of it.

What’s DinnerNow.net?

DinnerNow.net is a Sample Application that shows how you can develop connected application using several new Microsoft Technologies.

DinnerNow is a ficticious market place where you can order food from different vendors to be delivered at home or office. You can choose the type of food you want (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Meal)

The sample uses most of the lastest Microsoft techologies including: IIS7, ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, LINQ, WCF, WPF, WF, Windows PowerShell, Windows Vista Gadgets, .net Compact Framework and so on.

C’mon get the bits right now! http://www.codeplex.com/DinnerNow

For more information please vist the official web site (http://www.dinnernow.net) and/or team members blogs: James Conard & David Aiken.

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thanks
~johnny

Hi guys, I’m proud to announce that today at 7 p.m. DinnerNow.net got its golden build.

What’s DinnerNow.net?

DinnerNow is a sample application that demonstrates all the latest technologies that Microsoft has lunched this FY07. It goes from IIS7 to LINQ, from Powershell to Windows Vista Gadgets. It’s a really cool sample application.

What’s the difference between DinnerNow and other sample apps?

Well, DinnerNow it’s different, it’s a shift in the way that Microsoft develops sample apps. We didn’t just to show features and technologies we want to make it real. We want an Enterprise Scenario where people are aware of latest technologies but they don’t have the SDK Scenario types where everything is cool and you can use the best features of each technology. We’ve made a switch we want the technology to be a tool, to interact, to be part of the thing instead of being the thing.

What’s cool about DinnerNow.net?

It’s an endless thing, we shipped v1.0 but tomorrow we’ll be working on v2.0. We want you to send feedback, report bugs, collaborate and suggest what can be cool to do. This sample is not something common; if you are a Dev you can see how the code has been done, and all the development tasks. If you’re an IT Pro, just check that we’re using Powershell, MMC, and a lot of things to monitor and operate the app. DinnerNow.net it’s out and it’s for everybody!

What you will found when you download it?

DinnerNow.net has been written by really talented people, apart from latest technologies best practices you’ll get reusable code that you can use for your own apps. For example you’ll see lots of Powershell samples, how to write an IIS7 handler, how to use WCF with MSMQ. Also you’ll find our dependency checker, written by David Aiken, which can adds value to whatever you do. How many times you suffer the pain of getting errors on an application because the right components weren’t installed, now you’ll see how to perform that check. There’s a lot of stuff you just have to download it, and start the research :).

The DinnerNow.net Team

I want to write a paragraph special for these guys. Man, it has been one of the greatest projects that I’ve shared with such talented people. Everybody in the DinnerNow.net Team it’s a guru. It’s been really team work, and also we were all committed to get it. I really enjoy working on it.  Also I want to thank everybody on the team for being so polite and for letting me contribute as I can. When you work with people that are open to new ideas, it’s one of the best things that you can experience.

So you’ve read all these lines and didn’t get the code… Man, what are you waiting for? Get it now!

Ohh, I forget to say who is on the Dinnernow.net Team

• Brett Hill
• David Aiken
• James Conard
• Matt Winkler
• Nigel Watling

Please feel free to contribute on our codeplex site, reporting bugs, making constructive suggestions and reporting issues. We expect you to be part of it.

This is the funny ship it picture

thanks,
~johnny

Hi guys, after announcing that Web Client Software Factory has shipped. I want sync-up with you about where I’ve been.

After finishing some stuff of the Web Client Software Factory, I got back to Buenos Aires (where I live). And started with a new project: DinnerNow.net

What’s DinnerNow.net?

DinnerNow.net is a Sample Application that shows how you can develop connected application using several new Microsoft Technologies.

DinnerNow is a ficticious market place where you can order food from different vendors to be delivered at home or office. You can choose the type of food you want (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Meal)

The sample uses most of the lastest Microsoft techologies including: IIS7, ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, LINQ, WCF, WPF, WF, Windows PowerShell, Windows Vista Gadgets, .net Compact Framework and so on.

The bits will be available soon, now you can visit the Application Site at www.dinnernow.net

 I recommend you to review the screencast recorded by James Conard

This project is developed by several individuals from the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism group:

Brett Hill, David Aiken, James Conard, Matt Winkler, Nigel Watling.

I feel really happy of beign part of this team :).

Stay tune to www.dinnernow.net, and get involved with lastest Microsoft Technologies.

thanks,
~j